Crisis of the Left: Chicago

Panel held on November 15, 2011, at the University of Chicago, as part of the international Crisis of the Left panel series. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Mike Ely (Kasama) Roberta Garner (Depaul, science & society) Alexander Hanna (UW-Madison) Moderated by Greg Gabrellas, Description What is the Crisis of the Left? Crisis: Pathol. The point in the progress of a disease when an important development or change takes place which is decisive of recovery or death. [Read More]

Politics of the Contemporary Student Left

Hopes and Failures

Video Recording Transcript in Platypus Review #15 Panelists Alexander L. Hanna (chair): former organizer for United Students Against Sweatshops Atlee McFellin: Students for a Democratic Society, New School Radical Student Union Pam Nogales: Platypus (New York) C. J. Pereira Di Salvo: former organizer for United Students Against Sweatshops Laurie Rojas: Platypus (Chicago), former member of Students for a Democratic Society Description Young people’s heightened participation in politics in the run-up to the election of Barack Obama was crucial to his election and cannot be ignored. [Read More]